Jenna Packer

Drift Oil on Canvas 1370mm x 760mm

Locality: Porpoise Bay in the Catlins.

Main themes in the painting: the idea of a reflected universe – the sky reflected in the silvery plane of the sea, swirling mists of light caught and multiplied in the greatest light show on earth; the idea of a large bay being like a vessel holding a body of water; and a sense of mapping the land on a grand scale, producing an epic panorama.

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Brendan Jon Philip

Mem Mixed media on board

In the mystical system of Kabbalah, Mem, representing water, is one of the three mother letters of the Hebrrew alphabet, along with Shin (fire) and Aleph (air) that occasion the formation of the material universe.

This work is part of metaphysical inquiry into cycle models of creation, destruction and the phenomenological apprehension of the fluid and mutable play of existence.